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When Founders Do Customer Support

Postly Founder stories, support, and the 2:17 AM inbox ✨ Visit Postly 🚀 Try Postly Free Founder life • customer support • building in public When Founders Do Customer Support Pain, growth, and the moment you realize emotional distance is not cold, it is survival, especially when your cat is judging you like

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New York at a Crossroads: Berlin, Collectivism, and the Risk of Exit

New York at a Crossroads Berlin, Collectivism, and the Risk of Exit January 1, 2026 “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the wamth of collectivism.” Those words were delivered plainly, without hesitation, at the inauguration of New York City’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani, on January 1,

SEO isn’t dead - it’s just harder (and ads are getting too expensive).

For a long time, we poured money into ads - Facebook, Google, even Reddit. The results? Scanty. We never had the kind of deep pocket needed to make a deep impact. So in late August 2025, we decided to try something different. We started building our own growth engine -

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